Report - Salto
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Bridges for Recognition | Sketching the Framework - Offi cial Opening<br />
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Pierre Mairresse stressed that a lot had already been done. The SALTO Training and Cooperation<br />
Resource Centre in Germany is currently looking at ways to certify and validate the participation<br />
of 150,000 young people in around 10,000 projects each year. The programme at Bridges<br />
included workshops on good practices that are being developed around Europe. Europass has<br />
been a success, as have the partnerships with the Council of Europe.<br />
Bridges provides the opportunity to bring together a wide range of players and partners to inform<br />
each other, to share good practice and develop common understanding, to increase synergies<br />
and to increase the visibility of the youth work and NFE.<br />
Pierre Mairesse encouraged the conference to engage in a consultative, bottom-up approach to<br />
developing the thinking and creating concrete proposals. We need to create a virtuous circle<br />
where social recognition is enhanced by formal recognition processes and vice versa. In 2 or 3<br />
years we could have much better recognition of Youth Work and NFE. One possible step in this<br />
journey might be a resolution on recognition at the May 2006 Council of Ministers during the<br />
Austrian Presidency.<br />
He concluded by expressing the challenges facing conference as follows:<br />
Greater coherence between the diverse key players, policies and instruments involved<br />
Active participation of young people in the process<br />
Better comparability of methods and approaches<br />
Enhanced complementarity of formal, non-formal and informal learning- Simplicity and<br />
effectiveness, accessibility and visibility of validation and recognition procedures and<br />
instruments<br />
Focus on the European added value<br />
Linking Further…<br />
Youth Unit of the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission<br />
– http://europa.eu.int/comm/youth/<br />
Lisbon Strategy - http://europa.eu.int/growthandjobs/<br />
Life Long Learning agenda – http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/life/<br />
European white paper “A new impetus for European Youth”<br />
– http://europa.eu.int/comm/youth/whitepaper/index_en.html<br />
Youth Pass developed the SALTO Training and Cooperation Resource Centre<br />
– www.SALTO-YOUTH.net/youthpass/
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